Kanban for one. Simplify the planning behind the Japanese
Work And Study Productivity / / December 23, 2019
I'm not sure about Kanban heard everything, but those who are associated with the IT-industry, almost certainly already heard. That's another Agile-methodology, helping to develop a quality product with minimal overhead. The purpose of this article is not limited to the description of the methodology, but - in an attempt to show that the method can help you with personal tasks, which may not have anything to do with your work.
So, let's begin. What is Kanban? In order not to confuse, I will say that, simplifying the system can be reduced to 3-m rules:
- Visualize state (Kanban-board)
- Limit the number of slots in each of the states
- Measure the speed of operation, i.e. the average execution time of one task
Visually, the board might look like this:
Tasks move from the left speaker to the right, without jumping. Prioritization of tasks carried out in a column todoTo which I would recommend to put only a "big" problem: a trifle let seep between large, as it should be. What do the rest of the column?
- wip - work in progress, what I'm doing now.
- review - Analysis of the implementation of tasks, quality control, programming it would be called "testing"
- done - here come the problem, successfully passed the previous column. Why this column? Explain why she told me: I know for a feature, I sometimes do not produce "delivery" of the work performed
The figures under the headings - those slots. They mean that more than this number can not be placed in a column. These figures may change, they simply have to be changed.
After each "delivery" - for example, sending customers performed work worth doing "retrospective", during which necessarily need to analyze that prevent the job done as efficiently as possible and set himself the task to correct these "Bottlenecks". Upon reaching the limits in any of the columns, you should throw all the forces in the liberation of "slots."
So, if you fall off a super-important task at the moment when the slots in the wip is not me, it would mean only one - I should kick myself up until I finish at least one task to make the slot. This will help you avoid the endless postponement of work on then.
Start in the column wip I would recommend edinichki. We tend to do well only one thing at a time. If you are not satisfied edinichka its calming effect and removes stress, add slots, but carefully - your goal is not to write down all the tasks and perform them as much and as best you can, you can.
If you have any questions - you are welcome in the comments.
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